Sir Patrick Stewart (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor. With a career spanning over 60 years on stage and screen, he has received various accolades, including two Olivier Awards and a Grammy Award, as well as nominations for a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, four Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama in 2010. In 1966, Stewart became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He made his Broadway theatre debut in 1971 in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1979, he received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Antony and Cleopatra in the West End. His first television role was in Coronation Street in 1967. His first major screen roles were in Fall of Eagles (1974), I, Claudius (1976) and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979). In 2008 he reprised his role as King Claudius in Hamlet and received his second Olivier Award and his first Tony Award nomination for respectively the West End and Broadway theatre productions. Stewart gained international stardom for his leading role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), a role he reprised in a series of films and Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023). He starred as Captain Ahab in the USA Network miniseries Moby Dick (1998), Ebenezer Scrooge in the TNT television film A Christmas Carol (1999), and King Henry II in the Showtime film The Lion in Winter (2003). He was Primetime Emmy Award-nominated for his comedic roles in the NBC sitcoms Frasier (2003) and BBC comedy series Extras (2005). He also starred as the lead of the Starz comedy series Blunt Talk (2015–2016). He voices CIA executive Avery Bullock on American Dad! (2005–present). On film, he gained stardom portraying Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series from 2000 to 2017, reprising the role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He also acted in Hedda (1975), Excalibur (1981), Dune (1984), L.A. Story (1991), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), Jeffrey (1995) and The Kid Who Would Be King (2019). He has also voiced roles in The Plague Dogs (1982), The Prince of Egypt (1998), Bambi II (2006), TMNT (2007), The Emoji Movie (2017), and The Sheep Detectives (2026).